Yeah, and basically the same performance I believe. It's really on you now. You can get the expensive powerful new platform, or the veteran, cheaper old standby. I'd look up some benchmarks if you have time.
It's really up to you. Personally, if I was spending that much, I'd want the latest and greatest. However, if you DO stick with AMD, you might want to drop to the phenom2 X4 965. No games will take advantage of 6 cores, so you may as well save that cash, and use it on an SSD or save for later.
You REALLY don't want to gamble on the PSU, it could potentially kill every other component in your PC. Also, I do hope you are aware that anything beyond regular crossfire is going to get poor scaling and spotty game support. As far as mobo's go, x8 x8 really will not hurt your performance all that much, its usually like 2-5% vs 16/16.
Razer Deathadder with eXactmat pad, Logitech g35's, my built in ASUS g50 series laptop keyboard, and my new wired xbox controller. I also occasionally dust off my Logitech G13 bastard-offspring-of-controller-and-keyboard, but it sometimes kills my USB power, which is not fun mid-game.
You should switch to an OCZ Vertex2 or similar SSD, they are very fast, and are around the same price. Also, you probably won't need 120GB. A 60GB fits the OS, and a few key apps (Windows only takes around 35-40 GB.) Also, I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think you need a kilowatt to power even SLi'd 580's, you might be able to get away with a 850watt. Finally, you could drop down to the HAF 932, and save a few bucks. I second the move from 2600k to 2500k, unless some app (you mentioned movies/film editing?) REALLY take advantage of HT.
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